meddling

[med·dle]

The act of altering something secretly or improperly

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Meddlesome.

Noun
the act of altering something secretly or improperly

Adjective S.
intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people''s business"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Meddle

a.
Meddlesome.


Meddling

Med"dling , a. Meddlesome. Macaulay.

Meddlesome.

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Usage Examples

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

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